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TIL that despite common myth, there is evidence that Ancient Spartans did not kill disabled babies, but instead cared for them well beyond birth.

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x6aR7 TIL that Jeff Cohen, who played Chunk in The Goonies (1985), is now a Hollywood lawyer and actually negotiated the contract of his former Goonies co-star Ke Huy Quan (played Data in Goonies) for his casting in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
0dAZ1 TIL that Agave - the source of all tequila - is a member of the Asparagus family
Eg6QX TIL in 2013 businessman Tan Youhui hired a hitman to take out a competitor. That hitman hired another and so on ending up with 5 hitmen subcontracted for the same job and the plan falling apart.
VlEB TIL the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World only existed at the same time for a period of less than 60 years.
O4Aa TIL that in the Russian Version of Winnie the Pooh, Pooh is a pseudo intellectual poet and Piglet has a gun.